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This research is aimed at assessing religious tithing as a tool that promotes tax avoidance and evasion in Nigeria. To achieve this aim the research employed the phenomenological and survey methods. Data from the field survey was used for its analysis while the Z-test statistical tool was used to test the hypotheses. All respondents were selected randomly from within Asaba, Lagos, Enugu and Kaduna metropolis. Its findings show that religious tithing promotes tax avoidance and evasion with a serious negative impact on government revenue and so on national economic stability, growth and development in Nigeria. The paper concluded and recommended that the issue of morality should be taken seriously by government and morally conscious religious leaders in Nigeria who should educate citizens and followers on the need to pay taxes promptly and correctly without substituting it for religious tithing. |
